Time, Eternity, and the Trinity

By Eunsoo Kim

One of the vital issues in contemporary Christian theology is the problem of a renewed understanding of God's eternity and its relation to time. This is not merely a peripheral doctrinal issue, but lies at the heart of our understanding of God and humanity, and contributes to our entire worldview. This study focuses on a long-standing debate between two competing views on God's eternity: one focused on God's absolute timelessness in classical theism, and the other on God's temporal everlastingness in contemporary panentheism. In contrast to both of these well-worn options, this book presents an alternative Trinitarian analogical understanding of God's eternity and its relation to time, especially through a critical reflection on Karl Barth's and Hans Urs von Balthasar's engagement of the issue. This analogical approach, based on the dynamic and dramatic concepts of God's being-in-relation and of the Triune God's communicative action in eternity and time, has the potential to resolve the debate between absolute timeless eternity and temporal everlasting duration.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498254586
• ISBN13: 9781498254588
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"